Killing civilians is worse than killing soldiers. Few moral principles have been more widely and viscerally affirmed. But in recent years it has faced a rising tide of dissent. Seth Lazar aims to turn this tide, and to vindicate international law. He develops new insights into the morality of harm, relevant to everyone interested in the debate.

Seth Lazar is a Senior Research Fellow at the RSSS School of Philosophy, at the Australian National University. He works on normative ethics and political philosophy, and has published articles on war, self-defence, and risk in journals such as Ethics, Philosophy & Public Affairs, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, and Journal of Political Philosophy.

• 1: Killing Civilians Is Worse than Killing Soldiers


• 2: Necessity


• 3: Opportunistic and Eliminative Killing


• 4: Risky Killing


• 5: Vulnerability and Defencelessness


• 6: Combat Non-immunity


• Epilogue


• Bibliography


• Index